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growing up in the English city of
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Bradford Samia Shahid was a typical
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high-spirited girl she enjoyed fashion
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and fast cars and was popular funny and
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headstrong samia's family fully
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supported her Endeavors especially her
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father
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Muhammad there was no question that
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samya was a daddy's
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girl the Shahid family were well known
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around Bradford Sam's parents ran a
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limousine and car service business one
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of her uncles owned a fish and chip shop
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and another the local
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Florest the Shahid family tree also
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extended to their ancestral home of
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pandori a small village in the Punjab
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region of
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Pakistan Samia and her younger sister
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medha were given latitude to enjoy their
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Western upbringing though only up to a
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point the Shahid remained true to their
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Sunni Muslim faith and pakist
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Heritage in 2012 as samya reached her
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mid-20s her parents felt it was time for
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her to settle down and
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marry although arranged marriages
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weren't required by the Sunni Faith they
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were encouraged if not expected through
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Pakistani
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tradition Samia wanted to make her
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family happy and proud and was open to
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the
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idea Muhammad Shahid chose a man named
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chre Shaquil to be his daughter's
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husband Samia was less than
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enthused Shaquille lived in pandori and
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to just being released from prison for a
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non-fatal shooting of another man over a
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land
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dispute he was also samia's first
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cousin marriages between first cousins
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in the British Pakistani Community
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weren't
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uncommon samia's parents were first
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cousins and had an enduring and loving
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marriage they just wanted what they
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thought was best for their
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daughter
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Samia put on a happy face around her
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family and appeared willing to give her
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upcoming marriage her best
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shot plans were made for her to travel
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to Pakistan for the wedding though when
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speaking with her friends Samia was
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plagued with
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concerns she sought to live a happy life
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but couldn't see this happening with the
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chre
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Shaquille in the weeks leading up to her
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departure Sam sent multiple messages to
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her friends expressing her growing
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despair in one she wrote I'm dying I
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swear my life's a
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joke Samia arrived in Pakistan in mid
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February
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2012 determined not to upset her family
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she threw herself into the task of
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planning her
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wedding she bought her outfit and
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jewelry from the Pakistani Bazaar and
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fine-tuned every detail of the
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event her father paid for everything she
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needed Samia W chre Shaquil in a 4-day
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ceremony in front of hundreds of
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guests as a wedding gift to his new
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son-in-law samia's father gave Shaquille
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the house next door to the Shahid family
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home in
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pandori after the wedding Samir and
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Shaquille moved
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in
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4 months later in June samya returned to
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Bradford without her new
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husband Shaquille intended to migrate to
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the UK so Samir assisted with his
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application for a spous or
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VISA their marriage ceremony known as a
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nikar under Islam was in accordance with
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Pakistan's Sharia
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law it therefore qualified as a legally
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recognized marriage under British
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law however samir's friend noted that
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she was a shell of her former
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self although Shaquille was nearly 4,000
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M away samya felt like she was under his
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constant
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surveillance he insisted that they video
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call and remain in contact every
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day samya felt trapped and soon fell
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into
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depression within a matter of weeks she
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told her friends that she wanted to
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die with her husband's visa application
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still being processed AA returned to
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Pakistan in
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December she continued living with
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Shaquille but her feelings towards him
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didn't
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change 6 months later Samia flew back to
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England it wasn't long before her
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friends began to notice a positive
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change Samia seemed more like her former
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self she was once again talkative
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sociable and
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cheerful she soon revealed her reason
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for this
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in October Samia was out to dinner in
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London with a group of friends when she
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met a man named Sayad MTAR kazm known as
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Ali Ali had only been visiting London
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for a short time he was also a jewel
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British and Pakistani National but he
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lived and worked in
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Dubai Ali and Samia remained in contact
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and formed a close platonic friendship
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opening up about all aspects of their
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lives including samia's unwanted
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marriage Ali and samia's feelings for
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one another developed into a romance and
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by 2014 they were in
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love around the same time samia's
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husband's UK visa application was
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rejected consequently Samia knew that
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her family would expect her to spend
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much more of her time in
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Pakistan she didn't want this life for
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herself hoping that Shaquille would
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accept the futility of their marriage
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Samir asked him for a
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divorce he
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refused Samia turned to the protection
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of Islam under Sharia law a marriage is
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valid only if both parties give their
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free
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consent this must come without any
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physical psychological Financial or
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emotional pressure otherwise the
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marriage can be considered to be forced
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and declared
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void Samia visited at Bradford de mosque
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and spoke with the prayer leader also
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referred to as the
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Imam she revealed that she'd been
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pressured into marriage by her
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family the Imam attempted to contact
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chre Shaquille for his side of the story
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but he never
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responded as a result Sam's marriage to
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Shaquille was declared
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void Samia kept this news from her
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family and discreetly began planning a
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future with
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Ali A little over 4 months later the
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pair
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wedded they presented themselves at the
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home of the bradford-based amam who
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voided Sam's previous
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marriage Samia was happy smiling and
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singing throughout the
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ceremony 17 days later the newly Weds
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completed the British legal formalities
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by signing the marriage
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register Ali soon had to travel back to
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his home in Dubai for
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work Samia had to wait for her spouse or
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visa application to be approved before
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she could join
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him in the meantime she remained in
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Bradford with her family whom she
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believed were unaware of what she had
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done
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just over a month after her marriage to
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Ali Samia was walking through town one
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night when a man
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approached he wielded a metal bar which
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he smashed across samia's
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legs by the time Samia was taken to
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hospital large red and purple bruises
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had formed across her
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thighs she understood that the secret
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about her marriage to Ali was
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out the attack on her was an act of
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Retribution at the same time the Imam
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who officiated Samir and Ali's wedding
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was warned that there would be
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consequences for his
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involvement the threats had Arisen from
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The Shahs samia's own
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family over the coming months they
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ostracized samama further with her
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mother throwing out all of her
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belongings the family also began
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threatening Ali demanding he cut tires
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with
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Sam the police were informed and acted
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accordingly but the animosity between
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Samir and her family continued to grow
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she became more frightened for her
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safety in late May 2015 8 months after
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her wedding to Ali Samia received her
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spouse or
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VISA she fled to Dubai the the very next
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day samia's happiness was evident in
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photos and updates she sent back to her
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friends in the
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UK yet the absence of her family weighed
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heavily on
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Samia she reached out to her family
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nearly every day asking for
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forgiveness while samia's mother and
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sister sometimes responded to her
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messages her father ignored her
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completely his silence h Sam
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profoundly when Ali tried to appeal to
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Muhammad Shahid he just demanded that
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Ali ended the marriage to his
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daughter Ali
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refused Samia and Ali wanted to have
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children with this in mind Samia
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returned to Bradford to extend the Olive
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Branch to her
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family her mother collected her from the
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airport and brought her home to see her
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father and
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sister Samia kissed her dad and begged
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him for
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forgiveness everyone was in tears and
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for a fleeting moment samama hoped that
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she would be welcomed
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back however the Pakistani traditions of
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family reputation and respect were
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deeply upheld by Muhammad Shahid and his
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extended
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family in their eyes Samia had brought
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great shame on the family by marrying
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Ali Not only was he from outside the
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family he wasn't even a member of the
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same
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Faith samia's Family were Sunni Muslims
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whereas Ali and his family were Shia
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Muslims a bitter and violent split
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dating back 14th centuries exists
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between the sunnis and the Shi over who
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should succeed the prophet Muhammad as
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the leader of the Islamic
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faith in another perceived slight to her
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family Samia had converted to the Shia
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Muslim faith prior to marrying
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Ali Muhammad Shahid outright rejected
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his
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daughter in a voice message left for Ali
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Samia
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said the parents that I cried for while
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I was away are mine no more my kids will
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never see them never hear them I'm
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broken that's it my only pride is you
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and you
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alone Samia returned to Dubai
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devastated 10 months later in June 2016
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28-year-old Samia was informed that her
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ex-husband's mother had passed
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away as well as being samia's former
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mother-in-law she was also her
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aunt the pair had been markedly close
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during Samia time in
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Pakistan Samia desperately wanted to
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attend the funeral service in
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pandori her parents and sister would
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also be there granting her the
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opportunity to see them for the first
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time in almost a
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year however the trip was fraught with
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risk threats and attacks made against
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Samia in the UK for her alleged
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blasphemy had been restrained by
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prevailing Western customs and British
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law
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it was different in
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Pakistan when a person brings shame upon
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their family Millennial old Pakistani
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tradition dictates that honor can be
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restored by male family members
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murdering that
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person in a society where some value the
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dominance of men and the modesty and
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subservience of women the majority of
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Honor killing victims are girls and
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women who are killed by male
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relatives in Pak istan many actions can
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lead to family dishonor including when a
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woman marries against her family's
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wishes although forbidden under Sharia
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law the practice of kokari or honor
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killing has continued in Pakistan
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especially in rural
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areas Samia knew that traveling to
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Pakistan would put her life in
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danger her ex-husband chre Shaquille
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still lived there and and he and his
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family would no doubt have strong
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feelings about samia's perceived
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indiscretions after mulling it over with
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her husband Ali Sam decided that it
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wasn't wise for her to go to
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Pakistan several days after her aunt's
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funeral Samia received a word from her
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mother and
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sister while they were in Pakistan
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samia's father had suffered
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complications in relation to his
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diabetes
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his health had taken a turn for the
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worse and they feared he didn't have
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much time
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left samia's family encouraged her to
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visit
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him despite the painful rejection Samia
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still loved her
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father yet she remained uncertain if
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Pakistan was safe for
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her she messaged a
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friend I want to go but I have no
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assurances
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while samia's husband and Friends agreed
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that she would likely never forgive
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herself if her father died without her
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by his side they were adamant that she
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would be risking everything by returning
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to
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Pakistan Samia made her
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decision her sister booked her a plane
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ticket and on Thursday July 14 2016
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Samia boarded her flight to
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Pakistan before before she left she
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messaged a friend asking her to quote
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pray I come back
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alive Sam's friend responded with one
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word
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inshah meaning God
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willing during her first night in
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Pakistan samya stayed with a
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friend she left her passport and
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returned ticket at their house for
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safety keeping she then made her way to
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pandori over the next few days Samia
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sent several text messages to Ali
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updating him on her plans and sending
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her
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love she spent time with her mother
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father and sister as well as extended
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family on July 18 Samia visited her
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aunt's grave with her
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father around noon on Wednesday July 20
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she went to the pakist Bazar to buy food
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for
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dinner she messaged Ali flying out
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tomorrow hope all goes well insh
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Allah about 90 minutes after Samia sent
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this message the phone rang at the
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pandori police
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station on the line was Muhammad
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Shahid he was distressed and crying and
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he informed the answering
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officer my daughter has has died my
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daughter has
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died police were directed to go to the
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home of chre Shaquille where they found
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Samia Shahid lying motionless on her
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back at the foot of the
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stairs her scarf was covering her
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face police lifted it away gently
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revealing that samia's eyes were closed
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and froth had formed around her
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mouth she was clearly
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deceased her slip on shoes were
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scattered nearby and her handbag had
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been placed by her
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feet trre Shaquille was not at the scene
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and no one knew where he had
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gone later that evening Ali kazm
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received a phone call from Shaquille who
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informed Ali that Samia had suffered a
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heart attack and
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died
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samia's friends in the UK started
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receiving mixed messages about her cause
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of death some were told she died of a
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heart attack or a severe asthma attack
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While others heard she fell down the
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stairs neither samir's friends nor
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husband believed any of these
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explanations for a
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second within 72 hours of his wife's
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death Ali km flew to Pakistan to
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investigate the matter personally
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he was immediately confronted with a
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significant
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problem if a death isn't contentious
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Sharia law requires burial to be
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swift allegedly there were no visible
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injuries or signs of violence on samia's
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body therefore police did not view her
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death as
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suspicious her body was hastily released
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to her family and within hours of her
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death Samia had been buried in the
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village cemeter
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Ali informed officers at Pandora's local
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police station of the threats and
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attacks leveled against his wife as a
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result of their
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marriage with these new insights
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officers considered the possibility that
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Samia was the victim of a kokari an
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honor
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killing in the UK samia's friends worked
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diligently to raise awareness of samia's
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death which they undoubtedly believed
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was a
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murder news of the case reached the
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local Member of Parliament for samir's
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constituency of West Bradford Naz
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sha like Samia Naz sha was a British
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citizen of Pakistani descent and she
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immediately recognized that samia's
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death had all the attributes of an honor
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killing she wasted no time writing to
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the Pakistani prime minister seeking a
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proper investigation into samia's death
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as a result NZ sha started receiving
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threats from the Shahid family in
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Bradford two of samia's relatives a
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32-year-old woman and a 37-year-old male
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were
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arrested in Pakistan Ali kazm got his
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hands on a copy of samia's autopsy
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report the content shocked him and he
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quickly arranged a press conference in
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order to announce the truth of his
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findings
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a 19 cm long reddish brown bruise had
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been found around samia's
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neck the cause of her death had been
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listed as
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aixia photographs showing this bruise
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were leaked to the
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media Ali remained in Pakistan
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determined to find out what exactly had
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happened to his
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wife his efforts resulted in death
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threats with Ali subsequently requiring
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24-hour police
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protection the rising political pressure
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resulted in a special task force being
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established to investigate Samia
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shahid's
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death in mid August weeks after she died
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the task force Tracked Down chre
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Shaquille during interrogation Shaquille
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revealed that the morning before samama
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was due to depart Pakistan he rummaged
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through her belongings in search of her
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passport and flight
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ticket unable to find them he confronted
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samya and tried to pressure her to
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remain in Pakistan with
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him when she refused Shaquille raped
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her traces of seminal fluid inside
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samia's body were found to match
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Shaquille after her ordeal Samia tried
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to run out of the house but Shaquille
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chased her down and strangled her to
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death with her own
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scarf Shaquille was adamant that he had
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acted alone but police weren't
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convinced when they arrived at
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Shaquille's home the day samya was
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killed they were met with Muhammad
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Shahid he outright told police that his
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daughter had died of a heart attack and
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kept this story up until Ali km held his
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press conference revealing samia's
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autopsy
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results Muhammad then revised his
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previous statements to say that samya
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had
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suicided Muhammad had told police at the
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scene that Samia was married to and
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lived with chre
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Shaquille he made no mention of Ali km
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at the time later claiming that he had
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never even heard of
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Ali with his story failing to add up
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Muhammad Shahid was taken into custody
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believed to have at least been an
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accessory to his daughter's
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murder according to a 43-page report
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prepared by the special investigation
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task force Samia Shahid was the victim
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of a premeditated and coldblooded honor
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killing her family had felt disrespected
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by her attempt to divorce charre
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Shaquille and were further Dishonored
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when Samir instead married a man who
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wasn't a Sunni Muslim
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Shaquille was also angry that he could
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no longer immigrate to England as
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samia's
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spouse the report highlighted the
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campaign of threats against Samir over
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the preceding years and the trepidation
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that she must have felt in returning to
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Pakistan investigators believed that
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Muhammad Shahid and chre Shaquil had
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always intended to bring samya back to
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Pakistan they likely intended to
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persuade or otherwise force her to
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resume her marriage to
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Shaquille when she refused and tried to
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escape Shaquille's home Samia was likely
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confronted by her
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father it was believed he had held
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samia's legs while shail strangled her
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with her own
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scarf after the murder Shaquille fled
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while samia's father did everything he
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could to hide the truth from First
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Responders the the task force believed
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that Muhammad Shahid knew that the
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postmortem results would reveal that his
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daughter had been
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strangled if those results were leaked
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they believed that Muhammad Shahid had a
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backup plan to Lodge his own private
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prosecution against Shaquil for
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murder deeply rooted in Islamic law and
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codified by pakistani's penal code is
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the concept of retributive Justice known
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as
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Casas however it is possible to
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circumvent such an eye for an eye
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approach through a de it a payment in Le
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of
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punishment Muhammad Shahid would have
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been able to renounce his right to have
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his daughter's killer sent to prison or
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possibly executed if the killer instead
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paid him financial
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compensation this loophole is often
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utilized in honor
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killings Muhammad and chre Shaquille
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likely planned to use these quote Blood
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Money laws to Pardon Shaquille for
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killing
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Samia the task force report noted that
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the collision between Shaquil and
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Muhammad Shahid was almost the perfect
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plot had it not been for Ali km's
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immediate determination to uncover the
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truth they would have gotten away with
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murder Muhammad Shahid and Chri kill
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applied for bail at each preliminary
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hearing in the district
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court they were denied each
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time after 4 months in jail Muhammad
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appealed to the high court of
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lore the judges determined that there
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wasn't enough evidence against him to
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justify his continued
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custody the state prosecutor appealed to
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Pakistan's Supreme Court however the
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court upheld the
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ruling Muhammad Shahid was
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released the case against trre Shaquille
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was much stronger but not
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watertite in Pakistan confessions made
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outside of a court of law have no legal
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standing and cannot be used as evidence
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against an
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accused this practice is designed to
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eliminate the risk of coerced
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confessions Shaquille remained in
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custody albeit without formal charges
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being laid
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by the time the 1-year anniversary of
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Sam shahid's murder approached no
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tangible progress had been made towards
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a
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trial in response to the slow turning
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wheels of Justice Bradford West Member
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of Parliament NZ sha once again wrote to
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the Pakistani prime minister urging him
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to pursue Justice for
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SAA Naz sha received the appropriate
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assurances but still nothing seemed to
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be done
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done 6 months later in late January 2018
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Muhammad Shahid was
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hospitalized he succumbed to kidney
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failure and passed
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away neither Muhammad's wife Ina's BB
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nor his daughter madha were at his side
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when he
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died a warrant was out for their arrest
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in
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Pakistan the task force fronting the
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investigation into Samia shahid's murder
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had reviewed the possibility of others
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being
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involved they had come to believe that
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samia's mother and sister played some
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ancillary role in samia's death but when
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they tried to bring them in for further
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questioning they discovered that both
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women had fled back to the
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UK in 2018 samia's sister madha granted
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an exclusive interview with British
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tabloid Asian Express
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in the interview she expressed her
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family's ongoing belief that samia's
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marriage to chre Shaquille was legal and
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not
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forced madha said that she and her
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family were emotionally torn and
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couldn't understand samia's sudden
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death she referred to it as a tragic
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accident while claiming the photographs
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showing the strangulation Mark around
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her sister's neck were
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fake medha proclaimed that she and her
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family were innocent and that their
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lives had been ruined by quote a false
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narrative calling this an honor killing
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from the
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outset Mt B and madha Shahid are still
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wanted for questioning by Pakistani
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authorities investigators also found
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evidence implicating local police
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officer Muhammad Akil abas in covering
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up the
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crime abas was one of the first officers
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on the scene after samia's
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death it is alleged that he had accepted
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a bribe from chre Shaquille in order to
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let him flee the crime
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scene abas had also concealed the
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presence of the large strangulation Mark
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around samia's
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neck additionally he'd helped samia's
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mother and sister leave Pakistan despite
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Specific Instructions from his superiors
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not to let them
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go
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11 weeks after samia's murder the
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Pakistan parliament passed a bill to
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close the blood Money legal loophole
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with regard to wner
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killings the new bill amended the
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Pakistan Penal Code so that the family
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of an honor killing victim could no
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longer entirely forgive the perpetrator
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on receipt of financial
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compensation instead the perpetrator
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would face a mandatory life sentence
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in September 2018 after having spent 2
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years in police custody without charge
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chre Shaquille was released on
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bail he was permitted to live freely
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within his community while awaiting
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trial a year later Shaquille
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remarried like Samia his wife was
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British Pakistani and Shaquille once
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again applied to immigrate to the UK
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espouse or
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VISA Bradford West Member of Parliament
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Naz sha again wrote to the Pakistan
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prime minister as well as the British
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home and foreign
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secretaries she labeled the potential
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for Shaquille to be allowed entry into
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the UK as extremely worrying and
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potentially
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dangerous Shaquille's application was
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unsuccessful every year since NZ sha
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renewed her appeals to both British and
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Pakistani authorities to encourage
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progress in the case against
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Shaquille promises have been made but no
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action has been
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taken in July 2022 6 years after samia's
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murder Naz sha posted
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online sadly after years of fighting for
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this case I think there is little hope
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that the justice system in Pakistan
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will ever give samya the Justice she
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deserves
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